On campus life: The fact that Fletcher is a relatively small graduate school with vast local and international connections allows you to get the best of both worlds: strong student bonding, close relationships with faculty and staff, and an enormous network of peers around the world. The number of activities simultaneously happening on any given day at Fletcher, and other schools in Boston, is overwhelming. In my first month at Fletcher, I met the founder of an internationally renowned think tank, a Nobel peace laureate, a foreign minister, a president from a European country, a VP from an oil corporation, one of the UN’s head recruiters, a couple of renowned consultants, and US Army principals. During that same period of time I was able to meet more than a hundred classmates from all over the world who have done amazing things, and have really ambitious career plans. I feel lucky to be a part of this experience.

Fletcher has changed the way I look at the world: The first thing you learn at Fletcher is that “it’s a small world after all.” You can think about a remote place, or an utterly specialized subject, and there will be someone at Fletcher who has been there or done that. With the collaboration of the Fletcher student and alumni network, anything seems possible. The best part is that everyone seems eager to help you make your ideas become reality.